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62 words match “ROOD”

MONOGONEUTIC a.
Having but one brood in a season.
MOROSE a.
Lascivious; brooding over evil thoughts. [Obs.]
NIDE n.
A nestful; a brood; as, a nide of pheasants. [Obs.]
NYE n.
A brood or flock of pheasants.
PALLAH n.
nnulated horns. The general color is bay, with a black crescent on the croup. Called also roodebok.
PENNIPOTENT a.
Strong of wing; strong on the wing. [Poetic] Davies (Holy Roode).
POLYGONEUTIC a.
Having two or more broods in a season.
PREYFUL a.
Disposed to take prey. [Obs.] The preyful brood of savage beasts. Chapman.
RID v.
y of. "Rid all the sea of pirates." Shak. In never ridded myself of an overmastering and brooding sense of some great calamity traveling toward me. De Quincey.
RODE n.
See Rood, the cross. [Obs.] Chaucer.
SEASONAL a.
which appear at different seasons, as certain species of butterflies in which the spring brood differs from the summer or autumnal brood.
SHEER a.
l; prpendicular. A sheer precipice of a thousand feet. J. D. Hooker. It was at least Nine roods of sheer ascent. Wordsworth.
SHROUD v.
To lop. See Shrood. [Prov. Eng.]
SHROWD v.
See Shrood. [Prov. Eng.]
SIT v.
To cover and warm eggs for hatching, as a fowl; to brood; to incubate. As the partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not. Jer. xvii. 11.
SITTING n.
A brooding over eggs for hatching, as by fowls. The male bird . . . amuses her [the female] with his songs during the whole time of her sitting. Addison. Sitting room, an apartment where the members of a family usually sit, as distinguished from a drawing-room, parlor, chamber, or kitchen.
STAR n.
pl.) a configuration of the planets, supposed to influence fortune. O malignant and ill-brooding stars. Shak. Blesses his stars, and thinks it luxury. Addison.
STEEPLE n.
a structure if the roof is of spire form. See Spire. "A weathercock on a steeple." Shak. Rood steeple. See Rood tower, under Rood. -- Steeple bush (Bot.), a low shrub (Spiræa tomentosa) having dense panicles of minute rose-colored flowers; hardhack. -- Steeple chase, a race across country between a number of horseme…
SUBJECTIVE a.
lectual world, in distinction from the outward or material excessively occupied with, or brooding over, one's own internal states.
SUBTECTACLE n.
A space under a roof; a tabernacle; a dwelling. [Obs.] Davies (Holy Roode).
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